Rockwell to Enter Market
For Digital Phone Chip Sets

By

Frederick Rose Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated March 17, 1998 12:01 a.m. ET

COSTA MESA, Calif. -- Rockwell International Corp., a major provider of computer-modem chips world-wide, said it will enter the market for digital-cellular-phone chip sets, a step that is likely to widen competition and force down prices in the fast-growing digital cellular arena.

Rockwell said its semiconductor systems division initially will produce a set of chips designed for phones used in Europe and Asia-based on the so-called GMS standard. However, by the second half of 1998, Rockwell said it expects to be producing...